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HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI have great zeal for ridding this House of EVEL.01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWe are fortunate in having a brilliant and effective Home Secretary who gets on with her job. We are also fortunate in having an extremely effective Secretary of State for…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseImproving track layouts, remodelling the Selhurst triangle and constructing new tracks and two new platforms at East Croydon station would remove the bottleneck, which causes…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseAs I have mentioned already, £470 billion of taxpayers’ money has been given in support to business, and a 66% business rates cut for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am not sure that email was invented when the hon. Gentleman was last a Minister, but perhaps it had come into its early stages. It is absolutely right that Ministers had…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWhat my hon. Friend brings to the House is really rather shocking. It should certainly not be the case that women who have themselves been abused should be deemed as being at risk…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to raise an important and complex constituency issue. I am sorry that he has not received the information that he had hoped to. I will, of…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing this to the attention of the House. We want to support pubs across the country. As he knows, the pubs code is overseen by the Pubs…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseAh, Mr Speaker, your puns are getting almost as bad as mine. What I would say to my hon. Friend is that he is tempting me in the right direction to have a debate on the great…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to campaign in this way. We all have our own private responsibility to reduce the amount of plastic that we use. I am not sure that I can…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThe business for the week commencing 5 July will include: Monday 5 July—Remaining stages of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Tuesday 6 July—Second Reading of the…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI think the hon. Lady’s fox was shot some time ago, because my right hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock) is the former Health Secretary, and the word “former”…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWell, haggis to that, I think. When the hon. Gentleman complains about references to 1966, I would say “pots and kettles”, because we often hear from the SNP about 1314. I think…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her question and for the excellent work of the Centre for Social Justice, founded, of course, by our right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI absolutely agree about Ian Davis. He has been a fabulous servant of this House and a kindly and helpful figure to Members—particularly new Members when trying to find out how to…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseWe do our best to facilitate the Backbench Business Committee by announcing time, and I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is grateful for the time that has been made available.01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseMay I begin by wishing my hon. Friend a very happy birthday? I hope he will have a suitably covid-secure celebration later on today. What he has raised in this House is of…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseObviously, there is a regrettable backlog in tests because of the pandemic. That is being worked through. The number of tests being done at test centres is increasing. The number…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseThis is a deeply troubling matter. The House will know that there have been similar problems; the scandal at Telford and Shrewsbury particularly comes to mind. For the women,…01 Jul 2021HANSARDBusiness of the HouseI have more confidence in my farmers; I think they can compete with the best in the world. The Australians are fantastic farmers who have high standards of animal welfare. We…01 Jul 2021